Clovis

CHAPTER VII.

A FAMOUS MEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter 7 Clovis.

King from 481 to 511 AD.

Part 1.

The word Frank means free, and those tribes took pride in being known as Franks, or freemen.

the franks occupied the east bank of the rhine for about two hundred years then many of the tribes crossed the river in search of new homes the river west of the river was at that time called gaul here the franks established themselves and became a powerful people from their name the country was afterwards called france Each tribe of the Franks had its own king.

The greatest of all these kings was Chlodwig, or Clovis as we call him, who became ruler of his tribe in the year 481, just six years after Theoderic became king of the Ostrogoths.

Clovis was then only 16 years of age, but though he was so young, he proved in a very short time that he could govern as well as older men.

When Pippin superseded the do-nothing Merovingian ruler, he sought and obtained from the Pope a decision that his action was right.

Merovingian, the name of the family to which Clovis and all the early kings belonged.

The Merovingians were succeeded by the Carolingian family.

When the Lombards, as the Germans who had conquered the northern part of Italy were called, threatened to wrest Rome from the Pope, Pippin conquered them and gave a large portion of their territory to the Pope.

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CHAPTER VII OF FAMOUS MEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter 7 Clovis.

King from 481 to 511 AD.

Part 1.

The word Frank means free, and those tribes took pride in being known as Franks, or freemen.

the franks occupied the east bank of the rhine for about two hundred years then many of the tribes crossed the river in search of new homes the river west of the river was at that time called gaul here the franks established themselves and became a powerful people from their name the country was afterwards called france Each tribe of the Franks had its own king.

The greatest of all these kings was Chlodwig, or Clovis as we call him, who became ruler of his tribe in the year 481, just six years after Theoderic became king of the Ostrogoths.

Clovis was then only sixteen years of age, but though he was so young, he proved in a very short time that he could govern as well as older men.

Merovingian.

The name of the family to which Clovis and all the early kings belonged.

The Merovingians were succeeded by the Carolingian family.

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Another exception is the condition known as scrofula, caused when M. tuberculosis infects the lymph nodes in the neck.

King Clovis I of the Franks initiated a curious practice in 496 AD, the royal touch.

According to tradition, Frankish and later French and British monarchs had the power to heal scrofula with their hands.

The tradition continued until the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 18th century.

But his real account comes about 200 years later.

Clovis I, who's almost a contemporary of Muhammad, a little before him.

Harold Hardrada, an important character, Battle of Hastings, Viking king.

In fact, all the Vikings that we know, who are supposed to be very active, and we know them by name, and no one doubts their existence, who were around in the 8th and 9th and 10th centuries, they all come from one guy in Iceland, Snorri Sturluson, who was writing many centuries later.

Did

you read the conversion of Clovis

during your research? No, but I know that we've talked about it before.

Clovis was the barbarian king of the Franks.

Okay.

And I think it was around 500.

Is it Boniface? I think it might have been.

Yeah.

She was also beautiful in character and spent her time in works of charity.

Clovis, king of the Franks, heard of the beauty of Clotilde.

According to the old story, he sent a noble Roman, Aurelian, commissioning him if he found her loveliness as great as her fame to woo her for him and bring her to Reims, the Frankish capital.

Aurelian went to Geneva clothed in rags.

I am no mendicant, he said.

I am a king's ambassador.

King Clovis desires to make thee his queen.

Wilt thou take and wear this ring? Clotilde put upon her finger the jewel of Clovis, and by the act she made the France of the future one of the Christian empires of the world.

A FAMOUS MEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haren and A.

B. Poland Chapter 7 Clovis King from 481 to 511 A.D. part one while the power of the roman empire was declining there dwelt on the banks of the river rhine a number of savage teuton tribes called franks the word frank means free and those tribes took pride in being known as franks or freemen the franks occupied the east bank of the rhine for about two hundred years then many of the tribes crossed the river in search of new homes the river west of the river was at that time called gaul here the franks established themselves and became a powerful people from their name the country was afterwards called france Each tribe of the Franks had its own king.

The greatest of all these kings was Chlodwig, or Clovis as we call him, who became ruler of his tribe in the year 481, just six years after Theoderic became king of the Ostrogoths.

Clovis was then only 16 years of age, but though he was so young, he proved in a very short time that he could govern as well as older men.

He was intelligent and brave.

No one ever knew him to be afraid of anything, even when he was but a child.

The young man was also a bold and skilful horseman.

He could tame and ride the most fiery horse.